Making life work : freedom and disability in a community group home / Jack Levinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levinson, Jack, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group homes for people with mental disabilities--New York (State)--Case studies.

Group homes for people with mental disabilities.

People with mental disabilities--New York (State)--Case studies.

People with mental disabilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Group homes emerged in the United States in the 1970's as a solution to the failure of the large institutions that, for more than a century, segregated and abused people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Yet community services have not, for the most part, delivered on the promises of rights, self-determination, and integration made more than thirty years ago, and critics predominantly portray group homes simply as settings of social control. Making Life Work/ is a clear-eyed ethnography of a New York City group home based on more than a year of field research. Jack Levinson show

Contents:

CONTENTS; PREFACE: The Self-Organized Life; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Welcome to Driggs House; I. LOCATING THE PROBLEM; II. HOW THE GROUP HOME WORKS; III. GROUP HOME TECHNOLOGIES; IV. AT RISK; CONCLUSION: Making Life Work; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4605-1

0-8166-7339-X

OCLC:

646067957